To be free, and to love, art is what I can do. So, art is what I must do.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
I have been a painter for the longest time of any creative medium, but another great quest to me is acting. I went to college for it and help run a theatre company with my partner out of Silverlake in LA. Painting is my most direct and constant thread to the spirit of creation. It requires no audience or collaborators to happen, yet when those elements are included it becomes as much a theatrical offering as acting.
Where do you find inspiration?Inspiration comes from nowhere out of nowhere it seems. I do not know where to find it, it just starts to happen suddenly. There doesn’t seem to be any sense to it at all.
What would you do with $25,000?I would pay off my debts accrued journeying from my hometown in Palm Harbor, FL to Atlanta, New York, and now LA throughout my 20’s seeking a groove in an artist’s career, and a place in a likeminded tribe of creative miscreants. With the amount leftover, I would upgrade my gear and materials, and take a long time off my survival job to create my first truly serious series of original paintings. I would show that series, and with the profits and leftover reward rent my own studio on the coast.
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